SEAN TARJOTO
 TECHNOLOGY, ART & PUBLIC SPACE
 2/21/02

 Main questions the mid-term project should pose:
      What can globalization do to our everyday lives that art can use
 as evidence 
 for its purpose?
      What is the role in everyday life that art should have?
      What is the relationship between globalisation and our day-to-day
 routines? 

 The project will have three intersecting elements:
      globalisation <-> technology
      art that frames technology as tools for ideas
      technology as a process of globalisation

      And primary underlying theme will be: "The Decline of Public Space."
  As 
 public programs, parks, and infrastructures are increasingly riding on
 credit debt 
 and expanding international transactional networks, certain kinds of

 phenomena are appearing:
       Privately-chartered educational institutions as superior to public
 education
       Private prisons as more cost-effective than tax-financed
       
 Given that this is an apparent phenomenon, what does or can this do to
 our 
 notions of public space and conceptions ourselves in those spaces?  

 Where can one trace the private, religious, "transitional (elevators,
 buses, 
 trains)" spaces and their accompanying behaviors?

    Source: geocities.com/tarjoto/june

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